Lamentations 3:8

GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.

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In The King James Version

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

In Context

7GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.

9GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.

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Cross References

Job 30:20I cry to you, and you do not heed me. I stand up, and you do not look back at me.

Psalms 80:4Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,

Lamentations 3:44SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.

Matthew 27:46And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: “Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21

The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →

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